Chrix Design

torsdag 15. februar 2018

There are several videos showing hot to put on smokey eyes and purple lips, but not that many showing how to create stretched ear lobes.

I made these collages of reference photos for the work in progress book I showed the judges.

To make fake ear lobes it really helped to get a cast of your own ears. This was my Christmas present a year ago, casted by my very talented sister.

As for the earplugs I scuplted them in clay, molded in silicon and casted in resin. And I will use them as guides for my ear sculpting

The love scuplt was made with hard chavant clay and Monter clay for the dividing walls.

I ended up with a three part mold, which was very complex. Later I have learned another technique which makes it a little easier. (more on that when the tutorials on Princess Nuala are done).

All parts of my molds. I fill them with gelatin

The raw casts, needs to be cleaned up. To get rid of seam lined you can heat up the back of a spoon and smooth out the seam. This gently melts the gelatin

Test with the plugs.

I am hoping to make a full video tutorial on how to attach the wig and pun on the makeup and ears, but that will have to be next time I'm wearing it (as it takes so long to do it just for a test)Full makeup

tirsdag 13. februar 2018

I have styled several wigs, but only on a Styrofoam head. So you can just imagine how a new world opened up for me when I finally made one. The problem with the Styrofoam head was that it never stayed in place, with a stand the head stays in place

Of course I could buy one, but nah. I made one instead, from a small piece of MDF and a broom shaft. (any piece of wood can work for the base :)

torsdag 4. januar 2018

A while back I was asked if I wanted to take part in a cosplay photobook project called CSPLY EU, founded by kickstarter. And of course I would! I was straight up honored for being asked.

What is this photobook you say? (you can of course read more on their page csply.eu) but here you go:"CSPLYeu is a project that finds its birth in the creative mind of Kyman Cheng, a photographer and retoucher from The Netherlands. Together with Stefan Dorresteijn he set out to unite the european cosplay community in a high quality product, befitting of Europe’s incredible cosplay talent. Going beyond conventional methods this project puts emphasis on the conceptual and artistic side of cosplay." - csply.eu

About 50 cospalyers are taking part in this project and we will be featured in a 30x30 cm book :D I am so excited.So which costumes to choose... I was lucky to get to feature two of my cosplay for the book. OverwatchI recommended my sister Bettcanard Design and Karin Olava Effects as other Norwegian entries and we thought it could be cool with a group photo (which is also the reason we got to feature more than one cosplay). And our Overwatch cosplays always need more attention ;) These costumes are also very colorful and easy to play around in, so you can sort of get a story from the photos.

Group cosplay is best cosplay.

Adjutant from StarCraft 2Also I choose Adjutant for my single shoot, because I want to make sure the book has something about Sci-fi and sfx makeup included, and I think I look so cool in that outfit ;) But let me tell you, fining a dirty space ship in Oslo is not easy.

Also I had to take the train while wearing the costume, a whole adventure alone there ;)

Kyman was also very professional and super nice. I really hope I get a chance to shoot with him again. All photos in this blog entry is property of Kyman, do not share without his permission.

onsdag 3. januar 2018

A new year and new cosplay plans. I did not make all of the ones I planned last year, but priorities change. And for 2018 I have new ideas yet again. Will I finish them all, most probably not. But they keep me engaged and I love planning. Princess NualaI am hoping this will be my costume for EuroCosplay. I will give it my best effort and include all skills I have. The creatures in Hellboy 2 are simply stunning and I have so many ideas surrounding this costume.

Aloy I have wanted to make her for a long time, but the first time I ordered the wig it got lost in the mail and I lost my motivation. Now I have finally played the game (a little late to the party I know) and my motivation is found again. There are so many armor sets to choose from and I might change my mind before I'm done, but aiming for the

Hermione GrangerI am a huge Harry Potter fan and I always saw myself in Hermione when growing up (you know, being equally obsessed about homework and cleverness). Still feels weird buying Griffindor ties, when I'm a Rawenclaw myself ;)

Elizabeth Burial at SeaI'm so in love with the Bioshock series and have even started making this costume. Might be the first thing I finish this year, just waiting for some parts to make her brooch and the buttons for her shirt.

DC Bombshells Black CanaryI started making this as part of the Budget Cosplay Challange last year (February), but ended up with Zatanna instead. Also I see that I need a little more budget to finish it. So 2018 will be the year.

AnastasiaOnce again something I thought of last year, but never really got around to make. I even have bought most of the fabric.

søndag 31. desember 2017

Woah, another year over and this was yet another busy one #notshocking. Because I have taken part in the monthly 100NOK/10USD/10EUR challenge I have ended up with a long list of cosplay achievements this year, but I have not had the chance to take photos of all of them yet, so I'll post an update on that later.

Grid of most of the costumes I made this year.

Snow whiteThe first of the Budget cosplays and the one I put the most effort into. I really want to make more (budget) princesses next year.

ZatannaThe second budget cosplay. I was actually planning on making Bombshells Black Canary, but never got around to finish it completely.

Photo Håvard Staub Nyhus

StellaEvery year on my birthday I watch Intestella 5555 (Daft Punk music video) and this year I took the time to do a quick Stella Closet Cosplay. And due to time limits and such this also ended up being my Budget cosplay for March.

Lady ComstockA result of being invited to a Victorian style after noon tea and up-cycling older costumes.

Mass Effect Andromeda NPCI am a huge Mass Effect fan and was super hyped for Andromeda. Initially I was planning to make Cora, but her wig got the best of me. So I ended up with an NPC instead. Quite comfy, nick named the MEA PJ's ;)

Happy New Years

All about me:

Hello, I’m Christina also known as Chrix Design. I’m a software tester by day, costume maker by night. Most of my life I have been a little "know it all" and very creative. This evolved into me being a science nerd as a child as well as I sewed my own Barbie clothes. In the end I got a Master’s degree in Industrial design engineering. My childhood was also full of video games and my first prop came together mainly because I wanted a Portal Gun over my fireplace. I exploited every occasion to dress up and loved making more and more original costumes. It wasn't until 2011 I heard about cosplay, where had it been all my life! I got so many friends with the same passions for games, costumes, craft and books as me. After this I had no more spare time, there was always a costume to build a tutorial to write and new friends to meet. But I won’t say no to a round of Halo, an evening of board games or watching old Disney movies.
You can contact me at chrix.design.props@gmail.com or via my facebook page.